Fortnite releases new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote inspired by viral TikTok trend TikTok: Bella Poach\/YouTube: Punch n ShootOne of Fortnite Season 6\u2019s latest emotes has once again gone down a storm with fans, with the new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote heavily inspired by the TikTok challenge of the same name. Since Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 6 was released on March 16, developers have continued to drip-feed various updates, add-ons and cosmetic items. One of their latest additions, which was announced on Saturday, March 20, is the new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote. What is the \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote on Fortnite? The \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote is the latest emote added to the new Fortnite Season 6. As with all emotes in the game, it can be used on the battlefield to taunt your enemies, distract them, or to just, \u2018express yourself\u2019\u2026 What makes this emote special is that it is based on a classic TikTok trend: the \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 dance that first exploded on the app around September time and has been a staple on users\u2019 FYP ever since. Sometimes you just gotta wing it\u2026 Chillin\u2019 with the Squad with the new Chicken Wing it Emote with moves by @lexibb69 pic.twitter.com\/GyQgs3zO58 \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) March 20, 2021 The iconic dance moves and song are bound to be instantly recognizable to any TikToker on Fortnite, making it the latest in a long line of trend-influenced emotes in the game, which they call their \u2018Icon\u2019 emote series. As part of this series, Fortnite has incorporated trends such as TikTok\u2019s \u2018Rollie\u2019 dance challenge and BTS\u2019 mega-hit Dynamite into battleground emotes. How to get new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote The new emote is now available as part of Fortnite Season 6. If you want to use the emote in your game, you will be able to purchase it from Fortnite\u2019s in-game store, which is where players can purchase various cosmetic objects such as outfits and weapons to use in-game. The \u2018Chicken Wing it\u2019 emote is priced at 500 V-bucks and, as a new item, it is currently situated in the \u2018Featured\u2019 section of the e-store. What is the \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 dance on TikTok? The \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 dance on TikTok is a trend that first started to gain popularity in August last year. The trend is linked to \u2018The Chicken Wing Beat\u2019 sound on the app which is credited to TikTok user \u2018desktop\u2019. Read More: Valkyrae teases another \u201ccrazy\u201d project – The sound combines the music from 2019 hip-hop track \u2018Lottery (Renegade)\u2019 with lyrics from a 7-year-old YouTube video by user Fred Blanketburg. The sound has since been used in 5.2 million TikToks. In a now-viral TikTok posted by user and professional dancer Lexi (known by the handle \u2018lexibb69\u2019) in the summer, she claims to have made up a dance to \u2018The Chicken Wing Beat\u2019 on the spot. Since it was posted, the video has amassed 15.2 million views and 1.5 million likes, with TikTok users hailing it as the \u2018official\u2019 dance to the sound. Following the viral video, countless TikTokers such as Bella Poach have duplicated the dance in what is called the \u2018Chicken Wing It Challenge\u2019 and now, according to Fortnite\u2019s Twitter, they also took inspiration from Lexi\u2019s iconic dance when developing their emote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite releases new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote inspired by viral TikTok trend TikTok: Bella Poach\/YouTube: Punch n ShootOne of Fortnite Season 6\u2019s latest emotes has once again gone down a storm with fans, with the new \u2018Chicken Wing It\u2019 emote heavily inspired by the TikTok challenge of the same name. Since Fortnite Chapter 2, Season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}